When you read this headline, you may have laughed out loud, but trust me, the Toronto Maple Leafs can win the Stanley Cup this year.
Professional sports are amazing and sports gambling is so prevelant because we all think we can predict the future. However, Vegas always wins because we are rarely right. When Auston Matthews is supposed to score a hat-trick and beat the worst team in the league, the Toronto Maple Leafs lose 2-1. However, when they're playing the toughest opponent and reigning Stanley Cup champions, they'll win 9-2.
Sports are the only thing we have left that feels real and unpredictable and it's why we love them. The Boston Red Sox went 86 years without a championship, followed by the Chicago Cubs breaking an 108-year drought.
Not only that, but it wasn't that long ago that the New England Patriots were considered one of the biggest laughing stocks of the NFL, but if you ask any football fan under 30 years old, they'd be flabbergasted by that statement.
As a result, the Toronto Maple Leafs will win eventually win a Stanley Cup and stop their drought, but will it be this year? Throughout the Auston Matthews Era, I feel like this is the most underhyped season in that tenure, which usually turns results.
Whenever you think one thing in professional sports, the opposite seems to happen, so maybe this is the year the team wins with everyone assuming the worst?
Here are three reasons why the Toronto Maple Leafs will win the Stanley Cup this season.